Thread: problem with installing pidgin

hi,there

i'm trying compile pidgin 2.6.2 source

when type ./configure these messages

code:

naser@naser-desktop:~/app/pidgin-2.6.2$ ./configure  checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking bsd-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment sane... yes checking gawk... no checking mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(make)... yes checking sed... /bin/sed checking gcc... gcc checking c compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether c compiler works... yes checking whether cross compiling... no checking suffix of executables...  checking suffix of object files... o checking whether using gnu c compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking gcc option accept iso c89... none needed checking style of include used make... gnu checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking whether gcc , cc understand -c , -o together... yes checking sed not truncate output... /bin/sed checking grep handles long lines , -e... /bin/grep checking egrep... /bin/grep -e checking fgrep... /bin/grep -f checking ld used gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if linker (/usr/bin/ld) gnu ld... yes checking bsd- or ms-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -b checking name lister (/usr/bin/nm -b) interface... bsd nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether shell understands xsi constructs... yes checking whether shell understands "+="... yes checking /usr/bin/ld option reload object files... -r checking objdump... objdump checking how recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking ar... ar checking strip... strip checking ranlib... ranlib checking command parse /usr/bin/nm -b output gcc object... ok checking how run c preprocessor... gcc -e checking ansi c header files... yes checking sys/types.h... yes checking sys/stat.h... yes checking stdlib.h... yes checking string.h... yes checking memory.h... yes checking strings.h... yes checking inttypes.h... yes checking stdint.h... yes checking unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h... yes checking objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking gcc option produce pic... -fpic -dpic checking if gcc pic flag -fpic -dpic works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... 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(cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt checking dcgettext... yes checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes checking gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt checking xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext checking catalogs installed...  af ar az be@latin bg bn bs ca ca@valencia cs da de dz el en_au en_ca en_gb eo es et eu fa fi fr ga gl gu hi hu hy id ja ka km kn ko ku lo lt mk mn my_mm nb ne nl nn oc pa pl pt_br pt ps ro ru si sk sl sq sr sr@latin sv sw ta te th tr uk ur vi xh zh_cn zh_hk zh_tw checking ansi c header files... (cached) yes checking sys/wait.h posix.1 compatible... yes checking arpa/nameser_compat.h usability... yes checking arpa/nameser_compat.h presence... yes checking arpa/nameser_compat.h... yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking fcntl.h... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking sys/time.h... yes checking unistd.h... (cached) yes checking locale.h... 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what's glib ?
how should solve problem ?

sorry english
tnx

you need install libglib2.0-dev:

code:

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

to satisfy builld dependencies:

code:

sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin

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